Spooky New England: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (555 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073DMSYWX |
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| Number of Pages | : | 550 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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"If you have ever felt a chill as you walked past a Vermont graveyard, or stopped by a small New Hampshire country inn for the night and knew there was something watching you, or felt an unseen hand brush against you on a mountain in Maine, you will love Spooky New England. And if you don't believe in ghosts—you will."—Michael Carlton, Editor, Yankee Magazine
Paula T said Five Stars. Well written and great late night reading.. elizabeth adele yozamp said Spooky New England: Tales of hauntings, strange happenings, and other local lore. The ghost stories in this collection are spooky indeed! This book is a fast read, with great illustrations and stories! My favorite story was, 'At the Sign of the Sir Charles', which has a trick ending!Some of the stories are scary, some eerie, and some of them made me laugh. This book would be great to ta. Couldn't put it down A Customer It was wonderful to read these spine-tingling folktales from New England. The historical stories from the Colonial period were especially fascinating to me. The fear of being "witch-ridden" came up more than once (in The Witch-sheep and in Old Betty Booker). It appears to have been a very real terror for t
Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. You'll meet seaweed-covered phantom sailors and a ghostly black dog, hear otherworldly voices and things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Set in New England's historic towns, charming old islands, and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again.Yankee folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E